Turkey to Intervene in North Iraq Now, Terminate Evil Plans for a Fake State Kurdistan
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
November 08, 2008
I stated that in the same way a fake nation, the ´Arabs´, was created gradually (between 1798 and 1920), so that African and Asiatic territories inhabited by different non-Arabic peoples (Berbers, Copts, Kushites, Yemenites and Aramaeans) be detached from the Ottoman Empire and colonially controlled, today another fake nation is being created, the so-called Kurds, only to plunge the Freemasonic-programmed ´Kurdistan´ and all the adjacent lands into a maelstrom of destruction.
I insisted on the fact that the correct timing for a Turkish intervention is now as the exploded economic crisis is totally uncontainable either by America or the world´s top economies. Turkey should work with China and Russia to make them understand that their existence is threatened by the American presence in, and the Anglo-French colonial plans for, the Middle East.
To better illuminate the case and to further demonstrate that my viewpoint is shared by numerous activists and intellectuals originating among the ´Kurdish´-terrorized populations of Northern ´Iraq´, I republished the first part of an insightful presentation made by the Chairman of SOITM within the context of a conference organized by the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Islam (MOI) in Utrecht University.
In the present article, I complete the republication of the comprehensive presentation that so clearly highlights the local populations´ desire to get rid of the Freemasonic-promoted "Kurdish" fallacy that spreads chaos and death among innocent Christians, Muslims and Yazidis.
The North of Iraq - Possible Turkish Invasion: Is it Threatening to the Stability in Iraq?
SOITM Presentation
Organized by the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Islam (MOI) in Utrecht University at 12 December, 2007
The Rights of the Non-ruling (Minority) Groups
The Iraqi minorities constitute not less than 15% of the total Iraqi population, the largest part is living in the north. The vulnerability of the not-ruling groups is well documented and their rights protected by United Nations. Violation of minority Human Rights in sphere of the war and incited sectarian and ethnic sentiments is unavoidable. The Turkmen, Chaldo-Assyrians and Shabaks are all suffering under the Kurdish administration.
The Turkmen are suppressed in Erbil and severely marginalized in Kerkuk. The strategic district of Telafer, which is almost exclusively inhabited by Turkmen, has been included in the map of the Kurdish regional government. The attempts to control Telafer district faced great resistance, this exposed the district to continuous attacks from the beginning of the occupation, on two occasions the city was exposed to destructive attacks by airplanes and tanks.5 The population of Kerkuk province was 870.000 on the day of the occupation, now it is 1.300.000. About 100.000 Arabs left the region after the occupation. This means that the population of Kerkuk increased more than half a million. According to Human Rights Watch, the United States special committee for refugees and pre-occupation Kurdish statistics, the number of Kurds and Turkmen, which were expelled from Kerkuk province by Saddam regime, was 120.000 140.000. The administration in the Turkmen regions have been extensively Kurdified. The general elections and referendum were done under this Kurdified administration. A great number of manipulations occurred during the elections.
The Chaldo-Assyrians complain about the relentless Kurdish campaign to undermine Assyrian Rights. They talk about abuses, arrests, tortures, intimidations, assassinations and expropriation of Assyrian villages in the Kurdish regions.6 Ms. Shamiran Mako, an Iraqi Assyrian from Mosul, in a statement to the 11th session of the working Group on Minorities mentions that the treatment of Assyrians under Kurdish control illustrates a pattern of systematic human rights violations, they have been disenfranchised in relation to their Kurdish neighbors, political crimes such as assassinations of Assyrian political leaders hinders appropriate representation in areas under Kurdish control.7
The Shabak parliamentarian and the chairman of the Iraqi minority council Mr. Hunain al-Qaddo says that the Shabaks of the Nineveh Plains are under pressure of the Kurdish political parties seeking to "Kurdify" them in a drive to assert wider control over the ethnically divided north. They face oblivion as a people, targeted politically by Kurdish authorities with claims on their land.8
Integration with the Iraqi Government
The Kurds entered the Iraqi political arena after occupation much stronger than the other Iraqi political groups. They were adequately experienced, strongly cooperating with the occupation authorities and they had enlarged international support. On the other side the largest Iraqi Shiite groups were inexperienced and had strong relations with Iran. Accordingly, the Kurds obtained a greater role in the Iraqi politics and administration. They hold strong positions in the Iraqi government, military system and they have complete control on the Kurdish region. The strong Kurdish authorities could influence the drafting of the Iraqi constitution. Federal power was almost equaled to that of central government.
Kerkuk issues were imposed by the Kurdish actors in the constitution. The Kurdish actors developed inflexible attitude. They threaten to occupy Kerkuk if the referendum is not realized, they violate the oil law, prohibit the hoist of the Iraqi flag in the Kurdish regions, they keep Pashmarga militia as an army, they restrict the entrance of the Iraqis into the Kurdish region, they interfere with the administration of the non-Kurdish regions where they dominated management and frequently threatened to withdraw from the government. As a consequence of the aggressiveness and rigidity of Kurdish policy, no Iraqi political group could show opposition until few months ago. Firstly, the minister of oil started to criticize the Kurdish administration and few other Iraqi politicians supported him. For the first time all the political groups in the Iraqi Parliament started to object the Kurdish party´s impositions in the Kerkuk issues, even the Shiite Coalition group asked for independent status for Kerkuk. Lastly, the fifteen Mosul parliamentarians strongly condemned the Kurdish hegemony in Mosul.
The disagreements between the Iraqi government and Kurdish regional authorities further increased when the Iraqi envoys to Turkey to discuss the PKK problem included only the Kurds from the Iraqi government and not from the regional Kurdish authorities. This resulted in rejection of all the treaties which have been made between Turkey and the Iraqi government by the Kurdish regional authorities, which further destabilized the region and increased the possibility of Turkish intervention into northern Iraq
Economical Stability in the Kurdish Region
Much is said about the economical flourishing in the Kurdish region of Iraq, the Kurdish authorities and the pro-Kurdish western politicians waging campaigns about the ´flourishing democracy and economy´ in the Kurdish regions.
Unfortunately, the agricultural and industrial infrastructures in the Kurdish region are almost completely absent.3 Almost all the farmers left toward the cities during the civil war in the Kurdish region. No attempts are made to encourage them to return and cultivate their lands. No agricultural projects are instituted.
Today, almost all the agricultural products are imported from the neighboring countries, even tomatoes and potatoes. The supermarkets of the Kurdish region are almost completely provided with exported goods. The construction fabrics and the materials imported from outside the Kurdish region. Electricity is imported and given only for few hours to the houses. No agricultural and industrial products are exported from the Kurdish region. The Kurdish region lives on the taxes, the income of frontier border and the 17% sum from the Iraqi budget, from which the other Iraqi not-ruling communities are unfairly deprived.
The appearance of first Cholera cases in Kerkuk, which was well known for its cleanness, where almost completely administered by the Kurds particularly the Kerkuk directorate of Health points to the failure of the Kurdish administration.
Many campaigns have been waged in the west exaggerating Kurdish sufferings in Iraq; this has lead to the development of inflated unhealthy sympathy toward the Kurdish case. Today, the Iraqi Kurds export their inflated sufferings to the west to obtain different important types of supports.
Similar campaigns are organized on the fragile stability in the Kurdish region. This strengthens the above mentioned campaigns which collect further moral, political and financial support from the west to the Kurdish region. The results are:
The suppression of the other communities by the Kurds is not noticed by the west.
Increase of the abstention and rigid attitude of the Kurdish actors toward the Iraqi government and neighboring countries, which threaten the unity of Iraq and peace in the region.
Encourage the Kurdish actors to claim more lands.
American Policy in the North
The Kurdish oriented American policy was developed on 3 bases:
The Turkish refusal to participate in the occupation had seriously angered the already agitated American administration,
The full co-operation of the Kurdish authorities with the occupation and
The close relation of Shiites groups with Iran.
This resulted also in:
Marginalization of the Turkish role in Iraq
Ignoring the threats toward Turkey
Suppression of the Iraqi Turkmen
Not taking any precautions against the PKK
Indirectly providing PKK with arms
The anti-Turkey American policy has been clearly seen during the attack on the Turkish military office in Suleymaniya by the Americans and the putting of sacks on the heads of the Turkish officers.
Reviving of the PKK
It is well known that the PKK used violent methods to realize its goals and that it did not differentiate between the victims. This made the PKK to be categorized under the terrorist groups.
Several factors lead to revive the PKK, which was almost disappeared after the capture of its leader, particularly in the Kurdish region in the north of Iraq; to be used against Iran if needed and against Iraq if things went wrong and penalize Turkey for not holding the responsibilities as strategic partner. After the occupation the PKK armed with American weapons, started to set up camps, organized armed trainings, opened offices in the cities, hoisted PKK flags on the buildings, and PKK members moved freely in the region. All this could not have been realized without the approval of the Americans and of the Kurdish regional authorities.
Turkey
It seems that Turkey seriously wishes to join the European Union; this means that Turkey has accepted to adopt the two major policies of the Union: the liberal economy and Human rights principles. No doubt Turkey is a democratic country and almost the only in the Islamic world. Currently, Turkey approved important legislations on the rights of minorities, the minority rights still need to be improved.
Turkish Intervention
Turkey´s patient policy against PKK´s attacks in the last several years has brought the country important international support. The seriousness of Turkey to attack the PKK in the Iraqi Kurdish region made the USA abandon its delaying policy about taking true measures to prevent PKK to attack Turkey and not removing it from the north of Iraq. Another reason for keeping the PKK in that region is to prevent the Religious Insurgents and less possibly Iran from establishing presence, in the area.
It should be known that the regions which the PKK holds in north of Iraq as headquarters are high mountainous regions, which are very less populated and which far from the areas administered by local Kurdish authorities. This means that there is no possibility of interfering with Kurdish administration.
Several billions Dollars worth of economic relations between Turkey and Iraq, particularly, with the Kurdish region is another factor which prevents Turkey to easily worsen present relation with Kurdish authorities. The large and poor population in the east of Turkey depends greatly on the trade with Iraq. The worsening economy in that region will certainly increase PKK activities.
One of the very clear principles of Turkish policies toward Iraq is to avoid being drawn into the Iraqi chaos, which they describe as a quagmire. They feel that this will influence badly their relations with Arabic countries and cost the lives of Turkish soldiers and bring about huge financial costs.
For the time being it becomes very clear that the intervention is going not to happen mainly because the Turkish government is convinced that PKK attacks will be stopped and that large infantry militarily intervention in the region is not suitable in winter.
Note
SOITM believes that the Turkish possible interference against PKK in Iraq is intervention and not invasion, therefore, the term ´intervention´ is used instead of ´invasion´ in the SOITM presentation.
References:
1. Report to American Congress, "Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq", September 2007 http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/Signed-Version-070912.pdf)
2. Press Release of 15 Mosul parliamentarian, at 1 December 2007. http://www.turkmentimes.net/Default/wesima_articles/news-20071201-8408.html
3. Judit Neurink, "another copy of Saddam Regime", July 2007, http://archief.trouw.nl/artikel?REC=TR_ART_00225426
4. Kamal Said Qadir, "Iraqi Kurdistan's Downward Spiral", http://www.meforum.org/article/1703
5. SOITM report, "Summary of the real story of Telafer disaster: How the Sectarian Hatred was introduced in to the city and the role of Kurdish militants", http://www.turkmen.nl/1A_soitm/Tra.18-D1307c.doc
6. The Relentless Kurdish Campaign to Undermine Assyrian Rights, 2006. http://www.aina.org/guesteds/20060522114735.htm
7. Shamiran Mako, "The Current Situation of the Indigenous Assyrians of Iraq" http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/minorities/docs/11/Assyrian_3a.doc
8. BBC interview with Hunain al-Qaddo, "Crushing Iraq's human mosaic", July 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6293230.stm
Note
Picture: The target of the Iraqi Turkmen is to achieve a merge between Iraqi Turkmenia and Turkey.
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